Episode 4 spoilers of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Season 4, titled "Space Adventure Hour", Episode follow.

The latest episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" - "Space Adventure Hour", written by Dana Horgan and Catherine Lynn - characterizes the show that is back in the past. Except, it's not an episode of time travel. To test the Holodek prototype, Laan (Christina Jong) Crafts, a story of a mystery of murder set in the mid -20th century Hollywood, where the detective, Amelia Moon. And the suspects are the cast and crew of the series of space adventures, the "last limit", it will be canceled.

The episode has enough metatex to fill the whole company, because the "last limit" is a clear stand for "Star Trek: The Original Series". However, the writers were not Just Thinking about "toos" when it comes to "an hour of space adventure".

/The movie Jacecob Hall recently spoke with "Strange New Worlds" co-shows Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Meyers and got the scoop. Obviously, "Space Adventure Hour" went through fair development to reach its present form. The kernel of the idea, however, comes from the episode "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" "Far from Stars', where captain Ben Cisco (Avori Brooks) imagines Benny Russell, a science-fiction writer living in the 1950s. Or, perhaps, Russell dreams of being a nail.

Goldsman and Meyers have recognized the premise in Holodek at an "Space Inventure Hour" may look like cheating because The concept of this technology was introduced only in "Star Trek: the next generation", "" Which takes place almost 100 years after "Strange New Worlds". But Goldsman (who said canon can be lost) counteract the "Star Trek: Animated Series" showed a similar device when Kirk was captain of the company. ("REK REC" in the "Practical Joker" episode, specifically.)

"So, we were like, okay. Well, if they have a year over Kirk's live company, then they must have beta tested somewhere on the road. Why not test beta in the leader?" Goldsman explained. The passage of beta test in Holodek was a fine setup of another episode needed.

According to Goldsman, the writers "Strange New Worlds" worked on a "independent story of a science-fiction show in Paramont, which was much more literally," the way "far above the stars" was set up in the 20th-century Scientific Magazine. The episode is likely to still parallel to the true history of Star Trek (and will rewrite regular actors in new roles), but there would be no Holodeck's framing device to take the story in the literal reality of the show. However, Goldsman said the idea of starting to move away from them as they approached her as an independent episode:

"The more we were digging in it, the more complicated because in fact, the show we talked about there were many characters in it that were not yet in the show, the original series, there was no pike, so it stopped being literally and as we went on and then it began to get a little more and more hyperbolic and so much and so. HOLDEK ”

Meyers also compared the "Space Adventure Hour" with the episode of their first season "," The Elersian Kingdom ". In this, the crew of the company became convinced that they were characters in a fantasy book. The setup is very different from "far beyond the stars" and now "an hour in space adventure", but it has the same trick to set up a regular team in different roles. Meyers explained:

"Basically we made an episode style that was very much like a Holodek, where our characters became other characters, and we found a way to do it because it is as a gift for your actors and allows them to play and have fun, and it makes the episode bigger and better in many ways."

"Elysian Kingdom" is nodded with "far above the stars" with Easter egg - The stories book is written by Benny Russell. It makes sense that Benny Russell is in the mind of the "Strange New Worlds" team, because The episode is one of the most beloved in all "DS9" And "Star Trek" itself. Is "an Hour in Space Adventure" approaching its primary influence?

"Star Trek" is for a utopian future where mankind has finally overcome its historical diseases; Greed, prejudice to different groups of each other, etc. "Deep Space Nine" is the "trail" that most remember how humanity is Now And he dares to explore how Paradise is not perfect.

In the episode of two "past tense", the main characters return to Earth in 2024, where homelessness became an epidemic. The dark prediction of the show proved to be on the spot. In today's 24th century there is a foreign breed known as Ferenga, and one Ferengi we get to know the quark (Armin Fimerman). Ferenga are evil capitalists in culture where profits come primarily. They are more like modern people than the right people in Star Trek. As Cisco's quark tells the finals of Season 2 "Thehemhadar", "We are a constant reminder of part of the past (humanity) of the past you want to forget."

Not coincidentally, the "DS9" was the first "Star Trek" to have a black lead. Even if Cisko himself never faced racism for his legacy, the show was not a blind fantasy in color that pretended racism Never existed. In "far above the stars", there is no nostalgia, and the episode faces us with the fact that he aired just 40 years before the "DS9", a man like Cisko would never act in the TV series. Benny writes a story about a space station commanded by Blacks and his editor Douglas Pabst (Rene Oberjonois) kills the story before it can be published.

The "Space Adventure Hour" plays it safer than "far above the stars". The heart of the episode, according to Meyers, is when the Hollywood electricity agent Anoani Glis (Celia Rose Gooding, played by Uhura), explains that the cancellation of the "last limit" is a terrible idea because the show addresses social diseases and can help people. But there are no signs of those diseases in the 1960s generated by Holodek.

No matter how important it is, to have the Uhura actor to use the importance of "Star Trek", a black woman who has power in the 1960s Hollywood is a kind of historical inconsistency that never happens in "far beyond the stars". "Star Trek" invites us to dream of a better future, but the digestion of the past makes it difficult to get there.

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is moving to Paramount+, with new episodes crossing Thursday.